Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-12-22

nothing at present TO compete with tno Lcn-
don Three hours of solid fun that anybody
can understand, together with thirty or forty
songs and play, are very rarely offered in
this city for twenty-five cents, and it GER
tainly seems to me TO usher in an era of pros
perity and good feeling among the PLAIN peo-
pie who enjoy spectacular, musical and
dramatic season at cut rates
| did not take lady with me to the Lon
don, thinking that l would go first and see
how liked it myself | found that the rest
of the audience consisted of gentlemen who
evidently thought the same way
The scene opens with Il can opener and an
overture, during which rapid tiddlng is done
by three men, who gain perceptihly on each
other in half mile dash, followed by the
clarionet later and the hoaTse accents of the
xylophone. 1t is a medley, and admirable
time was kept by the audience, led by tive
sailors who sat near me, dressed up in their
other clothes and chew OF tobacco apiece
which made that side of their faces sag con-
siderably, and gave them sinister expression
of countenance and tinge of ill concealed
| navy tobacco. When the vast audience was
perfectly still, as it frequently was after a
humorous burst from the stage, fancied
that could hear the salvary glands of these
two old tars toiing on hopelessly through
| the slowly moving hours.
| Then there is a bit of life in Paris.
| After the Paris life episode, which is really
more spectacular than anything else, the
Acme Quartet club consisting of four hand
some young men in full dress and police
gloves, MARBLES few strains, during which
| it attains the higher notes with some diff
| Vain ba Aem
quartet pleased me very much, especially
when it refused to sing any more. l think
the Acme is certainly superior to the Climax
quartet, the Trophy, the LITTLE Mammoth or
the Early Dwarf quartet. Ffr
A tableau was now produced with Eden
Musee effects, and, with calcium light
thrown on it, pleased me much better than
the Railway murder.
Ten minutes are next devoted to selections
! from French opera by Delaur and Debimont,
who also change their clothes several times,
after which nine lovely women are discov-
cred standing on the stage dressed in mems
clothes.
These nine lovely women sing song which
sounds like all the other songs that have been
sung, involving more or less strolling down
Broadway and breaking up several home
circles, sly and unconstitutional social eccen-
tricity, ETC., during which one of the nine
lovely women, wearing a baseball uniform,
in which she looks like flannel doll that has
been run over by heavy wagon, distinctly
and in a point blank manner winks toward
me, and put my hat on again to cover my
confusion.
AT this point young woman sings a song
At least it is generally understood that it is
another song, but it sounds similar, though
any one can see by her gestures that it ha.
more pathos in it, and instead of strolline
down Broadway she wanders by the brook
side and large chunk of sadness falls OIL
her; whereupon she clutches at her hear
) like an Infatuated man trying to strange &
basket of pups. Mr.. Harry Morris, accom-
panied by a woven wire stomach upon which
he falls with the utmost IMMUNITY, holds {
, short but highly humorous consultation with
the ochestra He stays on the stage eigh
minutes, after which he succeeds in eludine
the vigilance of the audience and getting
away.
Juteau, the handsomest aerial artist in thu
l world, then smiles at a mark on the ceiling
: bows and puts her fingers to her lips like
= man who is replacing his front teeth accord
ing to Marquis of Queensberry rules, ant
ascends the trapeze by means of dark rex
string. Juteau then proceeds to hang by ON
limb, by two limbs, by her chin, by he
l elbow, by her nose, and by her eyebrow
9 while the band plays quivering selection
l She does not say anything during all tn
time she is before the audience, but seems t
rely solely on her gestures Her sentiment
e were highly Endorsed by one and all She
r assisted by Mr.. George W. Brown, of Spain
t who wears plain suit of tights and all air o
|. apprehension.
n The entertainment closes with a comica
D burlesque with jokes in it. The villain i
!. very funny indeed. This is entirely new
!. A humorous villain has never been success
D fully attempted before. His name is William
Pasterino, and at one time he tries to sta
poor young girl who begs him to spare he
life the remainder of her days and she wi
$ sit up nights TO bless him. She states tina
9 she is utterly alone, oh, SO very much so, an
that she has no protector, not even being prt
I tected by copyright, and SO he does not tax
L her life. He is d pleasant lain, with
r sinister smile and tumor on the side of hi
: head which looks some like an alibi
This play is quite long and, as the Tobacco
smoke in the dress circle had thickened up
= good deal and interfered with the view,
8 went out and took stroll in the crisp NJ
4 vember starlight, forgetting to go back till
v was too late
9 noticed in the audience quite numbe
IS of those who always attend the first NIGH
IS at the Bowery theatres. Mr. Sunnivan Gu
3 nison was present and sat pretty well dow
: toward the front. He said he liked the pla
q